STATEMENT OF INTEREST OF AMICUS CURIAE

The American Center for School Choice (“ACSC”) is a non-profit corporate entity, founded in 2008 and dedicated to the proposition that meaningful parental choice in education is a moral and civic imperative and serves well the good of children, the good of families, and the good of the political community.

The mission of ACSC is to support and defend policies that make it possible for poor and workingclass parents to exercise their right – a right that welloff families already enjoy and exercise – to choose the schools that they believe will best form and educate their children. ACSC believes that the education of the child is a fundamental responsibility of the family – one that the political community should support, but not usurp – and that enabling parents to choose the school that will best help them to fulfill this responsibility will strengthen our families, our schools, and our communities.

ACSC is not a partisan pressure-group. Instead, it addresses all citizens who are concerned about freedom, justice, opportunity, and the common good, proposing that parental choice in education is an exercise of freedom and a matter of justice that contributes to the common good. ACSC provides expertise across a broad range of crucial areas – education and persuasion, research and information, program design and implementation, litigation and legislation – bringing conceptual clarity, intellectual rigor, practical know-how, and political savvy to the task of formulating a wise, just, and effective set of educational policies that will serve the American public – in a manner entirely consistent with the First Amendment to our Constitution – by supporting American families.

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